KARACHI: Wisden released their World Test Championship XI as the final of this newly-introduced challenge is just around the corner.  The list includes three players from India, three from Australia, two from New Zealand, two from England, and one from Sri Lanka. No players from Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh were included in the list. The list includes Rohit …

The chief executive of “Fortnite” creator Epic Games testified on Monday that he knew he was breaking Apple’s App Store rules by putting Epic’s own in-app payment system into the game last year but wanted to highlight Apple’s sway over the world’s iPhone users, which now total 1 billion. “I wanted the world to see that Apple exercises total control …

BERLIN: German police said on Monday they had shut down “one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world” and arrested four of its members in a series of raids in mid-April. The platform, named as “Boystown”, had existed since 2019, counted over 400,000 members and was “set up for the worldwide exchange of child pornography, in particular …

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife and fellow philanthropist Melinda announced on Monday they are divorcing after a 27-year marriage. One of the world’s wealthiest couples — with a joint fortune estimated at $130 billion — the Gates have channeled billions into charitable work around the globe via their hugely influential foundation. In announcing their split on Twitter, the …

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi called for a nationwide lockdown as the country’s tally of coronavirus infections surged past 20 million on Tuesday, becoming the second nation after the United States to pass the grim milestone. India’s deadly second wave of infections, the world’s biggest surge in coronavirus infections, has seen it take just over four months to add 10 …

Blasts from at least one parcel bomb in Myanmar have killed five people, including an ousted lawmaker and three police officers who had joined a civil disobedience movement opposing military rule, media reported on Tuesday. Since the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown in a coup on Feb 1, Myanmar has seen an increasing number of …

ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of China to Pakistan Nong Rong called on Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the General Headquarters on Monday. “Matters of mutual interest, recent developments in Afghan peace process, progress on CPEC, regional security and current situation of Covid-19 were discussed during the meeting,” said a press release issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations. …

LAHORE: With cases of senior bureaucrats in BS-20 to BS-22 being considered for forced retirement by a high forum in Islamabad, former Lahore capital city police officer (CCPO) Umar Sheikh has served a legal notice on Establishment Secretary Ijaz Munir for considering him for the purpose in violation of rules and regulations. Touted as one of the country’s most influential …

LAHORE: A court here on Monday allowed two identical references of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and formally approved the closure of two inquiries into assets beyond means against PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Assembly Speaker Pervaiz Elahi. Accountability court’s presiding judge Sajjad Sheikh took up the references and approved NAB’s request to close the 20-year-old inquiries for …

LAHORE: A Pakistani-origin British woman was found slain at her rented house in Defence on Monday. Identified as Maya (25), she was shot in the head. She had arrived from the UK some two months back where her family is settled, Cantt Operations SP Sayyed Ali told this reporter. He said the deceased woman’s friend was living in her adjoining …